Day 11: Eye-Contact

This week at school, Daniel's teacher has been writing that he needs to work on his eye-contact. We have also noticed that his eye-contact has gotten worse since last week as well as his interactions with us during playtime. I started thinking about this because his first week of school, she raved about how good his eye-contact was. Last week, we thought this diet was helping and now we are not seeing as many results as we did before. He is also still having "bathroom" issues that I thought would clear up once we got rid of the dairy. So what does that mean?

The only two solutions I can come up with are 1) There is something else in his diet that is bothering him or 2) The breast milk is bothering him somehow. I read briefly on another site that breast milk does contain casein. So does that mean it has it regardless of what I am eating? Two weeks ago Daniel was pretty sick and did not nurse for 4 days. Then either Tuesday or Wednesday (his 2nd or 3rd day of school) he started begging for it again and I let him. So maybe the good few days of school was because of that? So now my dilemma is whether or not to force this if I am unsure of the results. Most of my family would say YES (they, as most of you, think he is too old to be breastfeeding). Me and my husband, however, both see that he needs it at some deep emotional level and with Autism, that level is rare. So, I am torn. I guess I will wait a while and talk to the new doctor we will be visiting in July. She takes a more holistic approach to autism and I am curious about what she thinks is going on with him. We have lots of blood work to do in preparation for that appointment and I am not looking forward to that.

On a food related note: I am having lots of trouble with breakfast. Usually, on school days, I spend most of the morning feeding the kids, getting them dressed, packing the car, and trying to get out the door. That doesn't usually leave much time for me to eat breakfast. I used to run out the door with a Pop-Tart, but those days are over. I need to figure out how to make some sort of bar I can easily eat in the morning in the car. Maybe I will work on that this weekend...


What did we eat today:
Breakfast
Waffle, PB (daniel)
Grapes; 2nd half of my Larabar (me)

Lunch
Rice Cereal bar; grapes; fruit chews; Gf pretzels (Daniel)
Nectarine; Ham sandwich (on some fabulous "french" bread I found in the GF section of Whole Foods); pretzels (me)

Dinner
PB on rice cake; Bell Peppers; French Fries (daniel)
Manwich (yes, the kind from the can is GF) with ground turkey on the same bread mentioned above; cut veggies; frozen french fries (me)

Snacks
fruit; Jell-O chocolate pudding (made with Almond Milk- for some reason did not get firm...maybe because the milk is different?)